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and fent Officers to all pares round to bring in Provifions for their fupporc
A
mongll: chefe
Pedro
de
Buftincia
(who was nobly defcended and married to
the
La–
dy
Beatr~~ C~a,
the
legitimat~ D~ughter
of
H1111yna
Caeac )
was difpatched
t~
the Province of
Antahuylla,
which
1s
a Countrey aboundmg with all forts of Pro
vifions : on chis fervice
this
Gentleman was ecpployed as the moft proper perfon–
bec~ufe
that
out
?f
refpeet
~o
the Lady he had married ,
~he
_Caciques
and
the~
Sub1eds
·would
w1rh
all readmefs
apply themfelves,
and
bnog m what
Provifions
he
lhould require : but he was very unfortunate in this undertaking
for
it
coO:
· him bis
life,
and
very inconfiderare
co
engage himfel
f
in danger
w
hi~h
he
might
have excufed and avoided. As we iliall find in the fequel.
Dionijio
de B<rvadilta
was fent
by
Pifarro
to
the
Ciry
of
Pfau
with lofirud:ions to
bring what money he could raife out of
Pifarro's
own. Efiace, or out of his Bro.
thees,
together with what Tribute and Rent was due from the
Indians
co thofe
whofe Efiaces were confifcated for
adhering
to the King
:
and having hereby rai–
fed
gre
fums both of Gold
and Silver,
he
returned
irh all expedition to
Gon–
f
alo
Piyarro,
whom he found in
Co~co,
\\here he was well received for the fervice
he had done, in
bringing
fo
conflderable a fupply for payment of the Souldiers.
Diego
de
Carvajal,
furnarned
Tbe
Gallant,
was employed to
Arequepa
with the like
Commiffion; but ( as
Palentino,
Chap.
8
z.
reports) he
treated
many Women
of
rbat Ciry very
ill,
becaufe their Husbands
were
faid to be
in
the fervice of his
Majelly,
and in confederacy with
Diego Centeno,
plundering them of all they
had
even to c
ir
earing Garments : and
it
is farther faid, chat he and one of
h~
comrades, called
Antonio
de
Vse~a,
ravifhed
two Women, who in rage, and for
!harne of the affront, took Mercury and poifoned thernfelves; imitating the ex–
ample of
the
cbafi
LttcretiA,
who on the like occafion delhoyed herfel£
·
Bue men, from fuch Outrages as thefe, deferve not the
name
of
GailAnt
being
fuch abominable Villains as wane words to ex refs th ir
Iniquity
:
for
he
that
would be efieemed a Gallant, ought not to derive that Title from his Attire
or
Drefs, but from his Words and Atl:ions, which challenge an eft:eem and love
from
all
men; but
chefe
men foon afterwards received the reward due to their de·
fercs. Nvr was
the
behaviour of
Francifco
de
Efpinofa
lefs
fcandalous in his jour–
ney
to
the
CharctU>
but rather worfe,
if
worfe can be.
For in his paffage he rob–
bed and plundered all he could find, which (as a certain Aurhour
fays)
amoun–
ted to the value of fixty thoufand Ducats : and in
Arequepa
he kiJled cwo
Sp1111i–
ardI
,
one of which had Lands and Command over
Indians :
in che City of
Plate,
he hanged a Judge alld an Officer of the Court; and all four of them, for no other
reafon, than becaufe they had
ferved
the
King :
and
in his return to
Couo
he
bum'd
feven
Indians,
upon pretence that they had given information of his dep rrure co
cercain
Spaniardf
who were fled from him. AU which he aeted without Com–
miffion or Order from
Gonfalo Pifarro
or his Lieutenant General , but merely oat
of his own arbitrary Power and Lufi , iocending thereby to evidence his great
zeal to the caufe of him, who was not pleafed with fucb fervice; for when he
was informed
of
his
Cruelties,
he
abhorred both
his
perfon and his aetions; for
Pifarro
was of a mercifull nature, and did neither approve of chefe nor ocher Cru–
elties committed by
Carvajal
of the like nature.
But to divert the Reader awhile from che fad relations of fuch Barbarities; we
will mention one
generous
ad:ion performed
by '\
perfon infamous in chofe days:
whereby
it
will
appear chat he was not altogether
fQ
wicked as Hiflorians de·
fcribe
him.
CH AP.